Building on its category breakthroughs in the Academy Awards shortlists, Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio (Netflix) picked up two nominations for the Society of Composers and Lyricists’ SCL Awards (thescl.com), including for Outstanding Original Score for a Studio Film (Alexandre Desplat). Other animated nominees include:
Outstanding Original Song for a Comedy or Musical Visual Media
- “Ciao Papa” from Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio – Alexandre Desplat, Roeban Katz and Guillermo del Toro
- “Light The Match” from Central Park – Danny Elfman
Outstanding Original Score for Interactive Media
- Nainita Desai – Immortality
- Stephanie Economou – Assassin’s Creed Valhalla: Dawn of Ragnarök
- Bear McCreary – God of War Ragnarök
- Winifred Phillips – Jurassic World Primal Ops
- Christopher Willis – Cat Burglar
The SCL Awards ceremony will be held February 15; see all the nominees here.
The much-lauded stop-motion take on Carlo Collodi’s classic tale also made an impression on the Black Film Critics Circle (theblackfilmcriticscircle.com), which today revealed the winners of 13 categories voted by members at the annual meeting in New York last weekend. Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio was named Best Animated film of the year as well as the Best Adapted Screenplay for del Toro and Patrick McHale (tied with The Whale).
Across the pond, the London Film Critics Circle — the world’s oldest such org — revealed the nominations for its upcoming 43rd awards ceremony, set for Sunday, February 5. While no animated title cracked the covered Film of the Year ceiling, there were a few nods to some of the year’s favorites:
British/Irish Short Film of the Year
- Scale – dir. Joseph Pierce
Technical Achievement Award
- Guillermo del toro’s Pinocchio – Brian Leif Hansen, animation
British/Irish Actress of the Year (body of work)
- Jessie Buckley – Men, Scrooge: A Christmas Carol, Women Talking
- Olivia Colman – Empire of Light, Joyride, Puss in Boots: The Last Wish, Scrooge: A Christmas Carol
See the full list of LFCC Award nominees here.
Previously Announced Nominations & Accolades
- Golden Globes — Animated Feature nominees: Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio, Inu-Oh, Marcel the Shell with Shoes On, Puss in Boots: The Last Wish, Turning Red
- Critics Choice Awards — Animated Feature nominees: Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio (also nominated for Best Score and Best Song), Marcel the Shell with Shoes On, Puss in Boots: The Last Wish, Turning Red, Wendell & Wild
- European Film Awards — Best Animated Movie: No Dogs or Italians Allowed; Best Animated Short: Granny’s Sexual Life
- National Board of Review — Best Animated: Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
- New York Film Critics Circle — Best Animated Film: Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
- African American Film Critics Association — Top 10 Films of 2022 includes Wendell & Wild
- Boston Film Critics — Best Animated Film: Turning Red
- Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards — Best Animation: Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio; Runner-Up: Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
- Chicago Film Critics Association — Best Animated Feature: Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
- Hollywood Critics Association — Best Animated Film nominees: Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio (also nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay [del Toro & Patrick McHale], Best Score, Best VFX), Marcel the Shell with Shoes On, Puss in Boots: The Last Wish, The Bad Guys, Turning Red (also nominated for Best First Feature [Domee Shi], Best Original Song [“Nobody Like U”])
- Best Voice or Motion-Capture Performance: Antonio Banderas in Puss in Boots: The Last Wish, Ewan McGregor in Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio, Jenny Slate in Marcel the Shell with Shoes On, Rosalie Chiang in Turning Red, Zoe Saldaña in Avatar: The Way of Water
